More university partnerships between the UK and China

Over the last decade, worldwide leading universities have created more and more branch campuses in China, including Monash University and China’s Southeast University (based in Nanjing) launching a new joint campus in Suzhou Industrial Park, a dynamic hub an hour from Shanghai. New York University has also opened the NYU Shanghai campus, with its first class graduating in 2017.

Further to the UK Government trade mission to China in early December 2013, British Minister for Universities and Science David Willets announced the following new initiatives:

(the first Sino-foreign university to open its doors in China since 2004): investment of £25 million in a Marine Economy Research and Technology Transfer Centre, as well as £27 million in the development of its Ningbo campus and a multi-million pound agreement with Guangdong University of Finance and Guangdong Provincial Government in order to establish the Guangdong-Nottingham Advanced Finance Institute, which will train up to 2,000 Chinese financial specialists every year.

: investment of £80 million in a new South Campus in Suzhou for Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) (created in 2006).

: new agreement with Chongqing Open University and another one with Peking University School of Telemedical Education.

: establishment of a £6.5 million Cancer Research Centre in collaboration with Beijing‘s Capital Medical University

and Guangdong Provincial Office of Science & Technology: agreement to be signed outlining future collaborations, including the recently announced China Catalyst programme to boost trade between UK and Chinese businessesFinally, the British Council’s is launching the Generation UK CEO initiative, aiming to increase the number of UK students going to China from around 4,200 to 15,000 over the next 3 years.